“The artistic bend is a sell-out. It's all truth, or it's no good. EIther write what's in the heart, all of it,… — Wendy K. Williamson Copy Share Image
I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Leonardo was renowned as a painter, and Michelangelo (thanks to his Battle of the Centaurs and the David) was known for portraying… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
Cinema is the most challenging art form that you as an artist can create. It's easier to paint a painting because you're… — Baran Odar Copy Share Image
If you have ambitions to go beyond your dreams, you should not seek to copy others' styles, but rather aim to acquire… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
As an artist, I like working with filmmakers that have the balls to kind of imagine the unimaginable. Those are kind of… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as… — Andrew Graham-Dixon Copy Share Image
If humor is not present, I tend to be concerned about the artist, or distrusting of what they're presenting - unless there… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by… — Louie Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of who came before you… — Kevin Chamberlin Copy Share Image
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for… — Kurt Schwitters Copy Share Image
It's difficult to choose between these art forms. Iconography is entirely different from the style of the 15th century masters, who were… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
The only problem I had on The Voice, was wishing that we, as artists, could have had a stronger opinion in our… — Curtis Grimes Copy Share Image
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life,… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
I think that its an artist's responsibility to have a point of view. Society takes its cue from popular art. People need… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“The one law of Art is its own spontaneity, its pleasure and freedom. How mystic, pure and simple is its wish; it… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Well, to me, the tensile strength and the very definition of an artist is something that I would place at the top… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
What inspires me to paint is life, my emotions, through my paintings I want people to understand that life isn't always happy… — Heart Evangelista Copy Share Image
I think that ultimately - as I say to most of the people who are acquiring art - I can tell you… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He promised them a class that would challenge their own beliefs about the redemptive humanity of what is commonly called 'Art'. 'Art… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an… — James Iha Copy Share Image
Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I… — Frances Stark Copy Share Image
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
